In the sense of 'a misused symbol of an oppressed group,' would you consider white women with hijabs to be similar to blackface?
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Yes, but I think more white women live in cultures that have less systematic oppression against women.
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it's required in many Muslim cultures for all women to wear them. No black culture I know of requires blackface
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partly because the Ottoman empire spread Islam deep into Europe; partly because every woman has to wear one in some countries.
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or that blackface is a comparable as a"misused symbol". It's like she learned sociology purely from the internet
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depends on a multitude of circumstances, whether they're in a muslim country, are muslim themselves, in a mosque to show respect